Load and Performance Test Engineer

Our client is a several hundred million turnover NASDAQ quoted Canadian Software house in the customer interaction technology space. They are based just outside Reading.

Role Objective:

We are seeking a technical and self-motivated technical Load & Performance Test Engineer to join our QA team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track-record of planning, designing, executing, monitoring and trouble-shooting Load & Performance test projects around Call Centre software and be capable of test planning by assessing the different features, risks and customer environments.

This person must have previous experience of load & performance testing, analysing the system requirements for performance attributes and understanding of how to use the architecture, requirement and design documents to write load test plan. The ability to create Usage and Traffic Models is a must, as well as how to write code, design load scenarios and scripts using a variety of load & performance tools, in order to find failures in the software.

Responsibilities:

Participate in design process to understand, analyse and influence the application/service/system to be tested

Identify the risks and appropriate load test coverage to validate new features as well as the load regression, and develop load test plans, models, scripts and scenarios with their monitored KPIs as required

Be able to write code in C, Java or C#, in order to create the load scenarios.

Minimum of 3 years of experience in Load & Performance and/or programming

Strong written and verbal communication skills

IT, Networking, Telephony experience

Desirable:

Minimum of 5 years or equivalent experience in a software quality assurance role

Experience with LoadRunner and/or JMeter

Experience with SIP

Call Centre experience

VMWare and/or Hyper-V environment knowledge and experience

ISTQB Certification

Knowledge of VOIP

Knowledge of MSSQL server

Relevant Academic Degree

They have issued me a list of 10 screening questions, which the right candidate needs to know the answers to. There will be a further technical exam, so there’s no point in looking up the answers, the right person will know at least 6-7. If you’re interested in the role please can you answer these questions and submit them with your cv.

1) How many usable IP addresses are available in a network with a subnet mask 255.255.255.248? 2) What file might you need to edit in c:windowssystem32driversetc?3) Which Windows command would you use to look at active network connections and ports?4) What sort of file has a .blg file name extension?5) What command would you run (either GUI or command line) to start or stop an application pool?6) Why do we have c:WindowsSysWow64 folder and a similar node in the registry?7) What command(s) would you use to stop services on a machine?8) What is Active Directory?9) What is the use of a proxy server with JMeter?.10) With Voice over IP, what are the roles of the SIP and RTP protocols.

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